New Way To Sell The Family Farm

New Way To Sell The Family Farm FARM HOME Miscellaneous 26-2-5 If you or someone you know is looking for a picturesque small farm nestled in the lake country of Northern Minnesota, you might want to call my dad. Or take a look on the internet, because that's where we've been trying to sell his place. Here's the situation: My family moved to Pelican Rapids, Minn., in 1958, when my father found a management job at a large poultry processing plant there. His first love was farming but, unfortunately, his own father's farm was sold in the mid-1950's after an interstate highway ran lengthwise through the property. He bought a small farm outside of town, put up two pole barns, and raised a couple large flocks of turkeys each year in additon to his job in town. It was a great place to grow up. Lots of hard work for my brother and I but we still found plenty of time to hunt, fish, and enjoy the lake country around that area (there are approximately 1,000 lakes within a hundred miles of Pelican Rapids). Now my dad is 75 years old. Although he and my mother are in good health, they've decided to give up the farm and move to their cabin on a nearby lake. Winters are spent in Texas. The problem is that it's difficult to find a local buyer who's willing to pay what we think the farm is worth. So before listing it with a local real estate agent, we decided to set up a simple website to see if we could reel in a buyer from off the internet. It didn't cost much to set up the web page and we were able to tell much more about the property than we could in a classified ad. Once we got the web site together, we've been able to run classified ads both online and in metropolitan newspapers, directing people to the site for more information. If you're interested in taking a look at how we went about it, go to www.bestfarmbuys.com/farmforsale/.

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